The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

by Ruth Perry

This book is a biographical study of unprecedented scope and detail of the celebrated Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, whose magnificent repertory of old Scottish ballads attracted the fascinated attention of intellectuals and song collectors during the later years of the eighteenth century. Her ballads--the earliest to be gathered from a named living person--were recognized by the great Francis James Child as a unique source in the Anglo/Scottish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198939094
• ISBN13: 9780198939092
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages